‘UN under attack by Israel on all fronts’ says Borrell!
THE High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said on Thursday that the United Nations is under...
Cameron Ready For War Against Syria
TERRORIST snipers opened fire on the UN inspection team in Damascus yesterday, with one car shot at ‘multiple times’, forcing the convoy to turn...
‘STOP ISRAELI AGGRESSION!’ – Abbas urges the UN
PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas yesterday called on the UN Security Council to immediately stop the aggression against the Palestinian people, provide them with urgent international...
‘Stop UK arms sales to Israel and end Gaza blockade’
END the blockade of Gaza! Stop selling arms to Israel! Investigate Israel for war crimes! delegate to the Labour Party conference, Sarah Jane Potter...
US Was Given Notice Of Attack!
IRAN’S Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) say none of its missiles were intercepted during Wednesday’s heavy strike that targeted two US bases inside Iraq...
Keogh breaks agreement with BMA
THE BMA has rebuked the NHS National Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh for breaking an agreement with it in an attempt to organise strike...
NAHT industrial action ballot after 90% reject pay offer!
THE NAHT school head teachers union executive has announced that it will move to a formal industrial action ballot after a 90% membership vote...
Doctors ‘deep sense of outrage’ over wage cut!
CITING ‘doctors’ deep sense of outrage’, BMA Chair Mark Porter has written to health secretary Hunt urging him to reconsider this year’s real-terms pay...
Bectu Outsourcing Strike!
BECTU members outsourced to Capita are to strike because of the company’s refusal to allow them to continue working on the BBC contract. Members...
70th anniversary of Chinese Revolution!
CHINA has celebrated the 70th anniversary of its founding with a massive military parade in Beijing showing off some of the world’s most advanced...
Shares And £ Collapse
Share prices and the pound were battered yesterday after the publication of official figures showed that the UK economy shrank for...
GMB defies ‘lock-out’ notices
THE GMB trade union has reiterated its stance of refusing to enter talks at Rhondda Cynon Taff in response to the issuance of a...
‘we All Need To Strike Together’
THE second series of strikes in the national postal dispute commenced yesterday morning, with Mail Centres walking out at the start of three days...
Cwu Strike Notice
Communication Workers Union (CWU) leaders Billy Hayes and Dave Ward have written to every member of the union informing them that the leadership is...
AMNESTY! –We are all citizens says march of over 25,000 migrants and refugees
OVER 25,000 people took to the streets to demand citizenship for migrant workers and refugees fleeing persecution to seek asylum in Britain, in a...
‘DON’T SIGN NEW CONTRACTS! say Unite Groundstaff
THE GMB has accused BA of bad faith. Claims of ‘significant progress’ in a leaked letter from British Airways chief executive Alex Cruz mask...
Watson and Starmer move against Corbyn
DEPUTY Labour leader Tom Watson and Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer, along with union leaders, are pushing for a second referendum in a move...
3.7m FAMILIES ARE JOBLESS!
THE UK economy will contract by 0.7 per cent this year, the OECD said yesterday, in a sharply revised prediction from that made in...
Hamas message to Riyadh Summit
THE Hamas Movement has called on the Arab and Muslim summit in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, to form an international Arab-Islamic alliance to pressure...
UK ‘on a war footing!’ – Sunak announces in Poland
TORY PM Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that he is putting the UK defence industry ‘on a war footing’. Standing alongside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in...
Kolja’s Long Walk for Assange
KOLJA’S Long Walk for Assange is heading for London and will join the weekly Saturday Vigil at Belmarsh Prison on Saturday from 12pm-2pm to...
US-UK medicines deal will cost NHS £9 billion a year!
A controversial UK-US medicines deal will cost the NHS an estimated £9bn a year by 2035 in higher drug prices, critics have warned. The agreement,...
Israel disregarding ceasefire agreement!
THE Hamas Movement yesterday accused the Israeli occupation government of disregarding the ceasefire agreement and ignoring diplomatic efforts aimed at maintaining calm, warning that...
Nationalise Liberty Steel
THE GMB and Unite unions yesterday called for Liberty Steel to be nationalised after the Tory government rejected a request for £170m in financial...
‘Give Venezuela back its gold!’
‘BANK of England you’ve been told – Give Venezuela back its gold’ chanted a 60-strong picket line outside the bank yesterday lunchtime....
‘Next three months absolutely critical for NHS’ – Blair
‘Whether it’s redundancies or posts not being filled, thousands of jobs are still being lost in the NHS,’ a British Medical Association spokesman...
Criminal Police Officers To Face Automatic Sackings!
POLICE officers guilty of gross misconduct in England and Wales will face automatic sackings, the government has announced. The change follows high-profile cases of officers...
Midwives plan more strikes over pay
HEAD of the midwives union RCM slammed the Tory government’s attack on NHS workers’ pay in her speech to the RCM conference that...
‘DON’T MESS WITH OUR JOBS AND PENSIONS!’ says BMA’s Meldrum
THE BMA’s Chairman, Dr Hamish Meldrum, fired a warning shot at the government yesterday as he opened the Association’s annual conference in Brighton. His...
BELOW INFLATION RISES ARE A BIG WAGE CUT! – says Unite’s Sharon Graham
UNITE general secretary Sharon Graham yesterday said below inflation rises are a wage cut with workers paying the price of the pandemic. Speaking after new...
STOP NHS PRIVATISATION! – NHS Logistics strike today
UNISON members at five NHS Logistics sites – supplying 43,000 items from beds to surgical supplies to hospitals and GPs across England – will...
Unite – Significant Victory For The Lower Paid!
UNITE has secured a significant victory on behalf of low-paid cleaners employed by outsourcing giant Mitie at Heathrow airport. The mainly migrant workforce whose first...
COUNCILS SUING RBS – over pension fund losses
Merseyside and North Yorkshire local authority pension funds are suing Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for compensation. The funds accuse RBS of withholding the extent...
Labour Party staff vote 75% for strike – if redundancies go ahead
STAFF that work for the Labour Party have voted in favour of striking if Labour carry out their threat of redundancies, GMB and Unite...
Seafarers will be criminalised for saving refugees lives says RMT as Patel launches Borders...
SEAFARERS’ union RMT has raised alarm over government legislation criminalising seafarers for saving lives at sea. The proposals, contained in the government’s Nationality and Borders...
‘WE WILL NOT GIVE UP’ – say Tamil students
‘We are not going to give up!’, declared the comrades of 23-year-old Parameswaran Subramaniyan who after 18 days on hunger strike is too weak...
Tories announce £330bn bailout for big business
TORY Chancellor Rishi Sunak yesterday unveiled a multi-billion bailout for big businesses in light of the coronavirus crisis. Speaking at the daily press conference Sunak...
Striking Consultants On BMA Picket Lines!
STRIKING consultants were out in force on the BMA picket line at University College Hospital, Euston, central London yesterday morning on the first of...
Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits – to fund tax...
TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to throw the sick and disabled off benefits to fund tax cuts for the rich! He spent the weekend...
UK economy collapsing – destitution on the rise
BUSINESS activity in Britain fell for the third consecutive month last month, with economists warning of recession. The S&P Global/CIPS flash services business activity index...
Cameron Breaks His NHS Spending Pledge
Prime minister Cameron has broken the coalition’s pledge to increase funding for the NHS, both Labour and the Institute of Fiscal Studies have warned. Labour’s...
BIG SOCIETY A BIG CON – says Unison
PRIME Minister Cameron explained to an audience of ‘social entrepreneurs’ in London yesterday that the ‘Big Society’ means ‘opening up’ public services to being...
‘We’re striking to defend the NHS from the Tories!’ say RCN pickets
NURSES called for a general strike to defend the NHS on lively picket lines around the country yesterday. At University College Hospital near Euston in...
Irish Gross National Product Shrinks By 2.2%
The continued austerity programme is costing jobs and making recovery almost impossible, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions said yesterday. Official figures released yesterday showed...